The census bureau analyzed the names of 269,762,087 people (96% of population because of errors in optical character recognition of scanned census forms and other abnormalities in the data). There were 151,671 names which occurred 100 or more times. The most common names (those with 0.2% of the populatiion or more) were:

rnk

name

count

per 100K

1

SMITH

2,376,206

881

2

JOHNSON

1,857,160

688

3

WILLIAMS

1,534,042

569

4

BROWN

1,380,145

512

5

JONES

1,362,755

505

6

MILLER

1,127,803

418

7

DAVIS

1,072,335

398

8

GARCIA

858,289

318

9

RODRIGUEZ

804,240

298

10

WILSON

783,051

290

11

MARTINEZ

775,072

287

12

ANDERSON

762,394

283

rnk

name

count

per 100K

13

TAYLOR

720,370

267

14

THOMAS

710,696

263

15

HERNANDEZ

706,372

262

16

MOORE

698,671

259

17

MARTIN

672,711

249

18

JACKSON

666,125

247

19

THOMPSON

644,368

239

20

WHITE

639,515

237

21

LOPEZ

621,536

230

22

LEE

605,860

225

23

GONZALEZ

597,718

222

24

HARRIS

593,542

220

25

CLARK

548,369

203

per 100K is the frequency per 100,000 people.
Count - Number of people with this name in the U.S.